[Verse 1]
I'm so afraid
Of all the mistakes that I've made
Shaking every time that I awake
I feel like a cardboard cut-out man

[Hook]
So build me a time
When the characters rhyme
And the story line is kind

[Verse 2]
I've aged and aged since the first page
I've lived every line that you wrote
Take me down, take me down
From the shelf above your head

[Hook]
And build me a time
When the characters rhyme
And the story line is kind

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3]
I live where I'm left
On the shelf like the rest
And the epilogue reads like a sad song
Please pick up your camera
And use me again
[Hook]
And build me a time
When the characters rhyme
And the storyline is kind
Yeaaaah!

[Instrumental Outro]